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Diasbled Regedit

Hi
I disabled the regedit program by making changes in the registry.Now the problem is that i ,myself cant able 2 run the regedit program. Is there any way i can gain access to the registry or i have to reinstall the windows?

What did you change in the registry? It is possible to make modifications to the registry (to reverse the change that you made) without using regedit. Did you make a backup of the registry before you made the changes? Did you have System Restore activated (if availalble)?

First of all what operating system are you using?
secondly do you have some idea of the key you modified?
Thirdly what is the message you get when you try to run regedit or regedt32?
Try using a third party tool to try to reactive the registry editing. Something like tweakUI might help.

\"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.\"
\"The reason we are so pleased to find other people\'s secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.\"
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

1. Why did you disable REGEDIT...........what were you trying to achieve? I ask this, because I would like to know what else you might have done

2. We really do need to know what OS you are using................OK, I can figure out that it is Windows.............and must be Win 95 or later..............but which one?

OR.............should your question be:

"My school's Systems Administrators have wisely disabled regedit to stop little toe-rags such as myself trying to be noveau Ankit Fadias...................but I am so lame, I cannot hack it"

YES, a re-install will work, so will a variety of other things, but we do need to know:

A. What you have got, and what you have done to it.
B. Are you genuine.

OH! I almost forgot, any manual/article that discusses changes to the registry tells you to back it up first...............so why didn't you?

possibly because it is not your system?

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

Next time:
1- Be sure to have a copy of your registires for {Disaster Recovery}
2- Be sure to have these registries on a removable Diskette or a USB device.
3- Unless you know what you are doing, don't try to modify any registry. It might cause serious problems.